Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Italy 26" strand of brass bicone

26" strand of brass bicone beads from Nigeria

multi-level passages

This is 1 gram of silver

small pendants: 17mm x 15mm with 2mm loops and solid silver backing

Repaired Rare Kiffa Bead Italy 26" strand of brass biconeThis very cool and magical bead was made in Kiffa, Mauritania. It is very old and was made as a female fertility charm, mainly by women artists. Historically, Kiffa beads are very important as its ancient technique (dating to 1000 years ago) made it one of the oldest glass bead making processes in Africa, which was purely African in origin. This bead is around 200 years old, possibly older, and it has been enhanced sometime in the early 1900s (the